Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around the way I've been kicked around by the people of Alaska...
Defense Department, they were met by a strange reticence, which turned out to be fear of offending a Congressman. Last week the Army Times, an unofficial military journal, said that the Stringfellow story would not hold water. He blustered about a libel suit and asked President Eisenhower to open secret CIA files. Next day Stringfellow was called into a huddle with Utah's two Republican Senators, Arthur Watkins and Wallace F. Bennett (both fellow Mormons). Under their questioning, he caved in, and that night he told the TV audience the truth...
...four joint Soviet-Chinese companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface a major concession. Joint companies are the standard Soviet devices for establishing control of satellite economies. Two of the companies had clamped a Soviet hold on the exploitation of Sinkiang's oil and mineral resources. ¶ To help Red China set up 15 new heavy industrial projects, build two railroads out from Central China to the Russian border...
...will be allowed to take out their profits in their original currency. "Those who invest dollars quite naturally want to get dollars in return." ¶ The government will guarantee repatriation of foreign investments. "This includes capital investment, capital gains and reinvested profits." ¶ Foreign investors will be allowed to hold up to 60% (i.e., majority control) of the capital of a new industry. Only exception: public utilities. ¶ Tax concessions for new industries will be granted...
...front pages by converting one "Big Jim" Vaus, a wiretapper by trade who had recently done a job or two for Gangster Mickey Cohen. The story got even better when Graham invited Cohen to a small meeting of Hollywood personalities. "When I asked for people who wanted prayer to hold up their hands," he remembers, "Mickey lifted his hand, and I am sincerely convinced that he wanted...